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Julian Gerighty, a long-time key cog at Massive Entertainment, has announced that he’s departing the Ubisoft-owned studio after 12 years to go and work on Battlefield at EA. His departure swiftly follows Ubisoft revealing earlier this week that they’re planning to lay off staff at Massive, with a voluntary redundancy process late last year reportedly having not resulted in enough departures to stave off this bloodletting. Meanwhile, the publishers have opted to take the opportunity of Gerighty’s departure to reassure folks that The Division series is just fine.
Does Hytale have controller support? The differences between Hytale and Minecraft are mostly subtle: improved graphics, simplified crafting, and helpful QoL tweaks collectively make the games feel distinct. However, there is one glaring omission that has players up in arms, and that’s the lack of native Hytale controller support. It’s a fair assumption to say that most of the Hytale player base has played Minecraft, and the majority of Minecraft players have played the sandbox game using a controller. With Hytale only launching on PC for the foreseeable future, there’s a large portion of the audience who want to be…
A week after talking up the in-development Division 3, series creative director Julian Gerighty has left Ubisoft’s Massive studio to join Electronic Arts, it’s been confirmed.In a statement on social media, Ubisoft confirmed that The Division series and Star Wars Outlaws lead has joined Battlefield Studios.“While we’ll miss him, his mark will live on at Massive and we’ll continue to bring the world he’s been part of creating to our players for years to come,” it said.“For our players, don’t worry, Agents. Our teams who built this world with Julian are still here, carrying it forward with an ambitious, unchanged…
Legendary Tom Clancy’s The Division lead Julian Gerighty, who’s worked at Ubisoft in some capacity since 1999, will soon leave the military looter shooter for Battlefield Studios under EA.This move comes a little over a week after Ubisoft announced it would “improve efficiency and reduce costs” by closing its recently unionized Halifax studio, impacting 71 positions, and a month after Battlefield lead Vince Zampella’s tragic death. About the major change, Gerighty writes on Twitter, “It’s time for me to hang up my go bag (keeping the watch) as I go on another grand adventure.””The Division future burns bright, and I…
I be a poor journo. Newly come from the official Ubisoft music YouTube channel. I spend my life in jeopardy. Of a publisher suddenly turning around and saying that a sudden mass reupload of Black Flag’s sea shanties was in fact just a case of behind-the-scenes issues, rather than another harbinger of a remake announcement. Tp be fair, it did follow many reports about the badly kept secret that is the Black Flag remake and a PEGI rating that sure looks like it’s for such a game.
As if Treyarch hadn’t already packed enough variations of the Zombies formula into Black Ops 7, it looks like even more modes are on the way. While I and countless other Zombies fans are always happy to see new round-based maps arrive, there may soon be an overwhelming amount of ways to play them. In celebration of 115 Day, Treyarch has revealed what’s on the horizon for next month’s Black Ops 7 Season 2 update, and while its lips are sealed on the new round-based map, it’s spilt the beans on several new modes. The first sees two of Black…
The latest episode of VGC: The Video Game Podcast is available now.This week, Jordan, Chris, and Andy chat about the newly revealed Pokémon Lego, the future of The Division, Sonic 35 and more.The crew also chats about Josef Fares recent comments about EA, and the publisher’s reputation in general.If you enjoy this podcast, you can get more podcasts, videos, and more from VGC on Patreon. You can find out more at Patreon.com/VideoGamesChronicle.VGC: The Video Games Podcast episodes are available weekly, hosted by VGC’s Jordan Middler, Chris Scullion and Andy Robinson, and broadcaster Pete Donaldson, featuring regular special guests from across the…
We knew it was happening, and now we have a date: Amazon’s New World is being shut down on January 31, 2027. As people lament the fantasy MMO’s demise, Alistair McFarlane, the chief operations officer and company director of Facepunch Studios, the company behind Rust and Garry’s Mod, appears to be trying to organize some form of preservation for the dying game.He made his apparent bid on Twitter. “$25 million, final offer,” he states, tagging Amazon Game Studios. He adds in a separate tweet: “Games should never die.” He’s right about that, regardless of how serious this bid is –…
I continue to have a soft spot for Soulframe, the new, sort-of-early access fantasy RPG from Warframe developers Digital Extremes, despite the fact that the lore writing is often wyrd to the point of giving me a concussion. Especially when it creeps into studio press announcements. For example, here is a snippet from the developer’s summary of Soulframey doings in the year 2025: “Together, we stepped into sap-dreams and freed Bromius from rotting roots. We Bestitched with a certain witch and crept into the crypts of The Circade.” …Right then! I expect you shall be tending to your ravens…
Nvidia GPU supply in 2026 seemingly just took another hit, as according to a new leak, delivery of its GPUs to its graphics card production partners “has been cut down 15%-20%.” What’s more, the same source suggests there will be “no new product in 2026,” seemingly confirming the cancelation or very long delay of the RTX 50 Super series. Along with other reports that the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB have been canceled, it paints a depressing picture for the graphics card market this year. This demoralizing Nvidia leak strongly suggests that anyone lucky enough to grab…